The South African Police Services has told Parliament that nearly 400 corruption cases involving its members are being investigated by various law enforcement agencies. In its briefing to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, SAPS says transgressions are being committed by members across ranks from senior to junior levels. Lulama Matya reports....

Guest: Dr RGD Rajin – Former member of the SAPS having served 40 years in various senior ranks and now works as a lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA

The world is this morning watching developments in the USA where Trump's campaign has launched legal action in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, calling for vote counting to be halted. The campaign officials accuse Democrats of scheming to disenfranchise Republican voters. Eric Trump has told his father's supporters in Pennsylvania that the President is sending lawyers to challenge the count there. Without providing any evidence, he has accused Democratic election officials of fraud, and insists that the Trump campaign has been left without any choice…

Guest: Prof. John Stremlau - Honorary professor of International Relations at Wits University

This morning we deal with chronic wounds. According to medical journals, a chronic wound is one that has failed to progress through the phases of healing in an orderly and timely fashion and has shown no significant progress toward healing in 30 days. What is the common cause of a chronic wound and what makes it not heal?

Guest: Sr Liezl Naude – Wound care Specialist at Eloquent Health and Wellness in Pretoria East

In light of Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu hosting a women’s summit tomorrow (Thursday), we talk to some of the women in the sector about the progress they are making in the sector. The summit is aimed at unlocking the value chain to allow broader participation of women in both Human Settlements and Water & Sanitation projects and programmes. For more on this and also how the sector can attract young women, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Marcia Maraka - Chief Director: Construction @ Water & Sanitation Department

Guest: Nonhlanhla Buthelezi - DDG: Delivery Frameworks in Human Settlements

Guest: Kile Mteto – President of the South African Women In Construction and businesswoman

Dr Kgosi Letlape who is the outgoing president of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), says that the standard of healthcare in public hospitals pre-1994 was better than what is currently experienced in the private sector today. He went on to talk about how expensive the private sector is and the impact it has on health practitioners. Dr Letlape now joins us on the line to share his thoughts…

Guest: Dr Kgosi Letlape – Outgoing president of the Health Professional Council of South Africa

We take a look now at accuracy in the testing of Covid-19. Speed is of the essence around this period and we know how testing labs are overwhelmed. Well Wits University’s Centre for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research has come up with a solution that can speed up the testing process with precision and to educate us on this latest development.

Guest: Professor Bavesh Kana – Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research at the University of the Witwatersrand (He is heading the team)

Last week Bryan could not deal with the questions sent to him as we had to cross to one of the big court cases. Well today is your chance to ask him questions around your finances. But first let’s deal with the questions that have been submitted to him last month of a similar nature…

GUEST: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

Yesterday former chairperson at SAA Technical, Yakhe Kwinana really tested Justice Zondo’s patience at the Commission of inquiry into state capture. The chairperson kept reminding her that she is a professional why she kept claiming that she didn’t know things like contracts and so on. Let’s listen to some of the exchange that sort of dominated her testimony….

LINK: Having listened to that exchange, what does it say about the behaviour of executives? Also seeing how many of them confess that they didn’t know the roles they were supposed to play in the positions they were in, what does it say about ethics and accountability of executives especially in SOEs?

Guest: Professor Ivor Sarakinsky – Wits School of Governance

With just a day to Election Day in the United States, critical swing states in the Midwest will be the focus for both campaigns as they try to drive their supporters to the polls. With just less than 24 hours to go in terms of campaign events, President Donald Trump spent Saturday criss-crossing the must-win State of Pennsylvania with Democratic Nominee Joe Biden close by in the State of Michigan. Their surrogates are also fanned out in critical must-win states where polling continues to show close races that will determine who wins the Electoral College and thereby the White House. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports...

PKG-USA-ELECTIONS

Guest: Dr Dinesh Sharma - Director & Chief Research Officer Steam Works Studio (Also author of Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia)

For many years now all we’ve heard about the e-tolls was never in favour of motorists. The ANC government which by the way implemented these tolls kept promising to deal with them. Taking you back to everything that was said by government around e-toll will take the month. So for now let’s listen to this interview by Aldrin Sampier talking to Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on the 3rd of March this year….

CLIP-MBALULA-E-TOLLS

LINK: Well this time around draft regulations to the Aarto act – are proposing a fine of R500 for defaulting motorists each time they pass under a gantry. To educate us on this, we are joined on the line by….

Guest: Howard Dembovsky - Chairperson of Justice Project South Africa